VanLUG Email Archive
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, R Garth Wood wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Geoff Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Here's my present dilemma: when I first installed Debian, I was told a
> > > 600MB partition is *more* than enough. It seems that is no longer the
> > > case (although I'm really not sure why, I don't have frivolities like
> >
> > I had a lot of crap on my last install(more than 2 years old)
> > and I only had 600MB. I guess your distro is... big boned.
> >
> > > games n' stuff [yet] ) My HD is 2.1 Gigs, so my Win 95 partition is a hog
> > > that I'd like to shrink eventually to nothing. For now, I'd like to up my
> > > Linux partition to 1-1.2 gigs. How can I do this? (there was a similar
> >
>
> Can fips increase the size of my linux partition, or will I have to create
> a new partition? If I have to create a new partition, what should I do
> with it? I was thinking maybe I should move /usr there or something.
> (since that is the directory that seems to get bigger and bigger)
>
> Thanks,
>
Fips is hard to start for beginers, When I started it did lots problem to me.
Otherwise partition magic commersial .To use it put copy of partition magic on
bootable disk and load in memory .You can't resize linux partition using this
programm. If you want to have win95 and linux
maybe ease way to reinstal everything from scrach. Install first win95 and then
linux and culculate
space for both OS ahead.